Help with Tabber

No. There is no sign-up, no email address to verify, and no password. Tabber asks for your first name once, on first launch, so that “I” and “me” in your description resolve to you. That name is stored only on your iPhone and can be changed in Settings at any time.

Nothing. Tabber is free to download, with no subscription, no advertising, and no in-app purchases. Because all the intelligence runs on your own device, there are no server bills to cover.

Yes, completely. Reading the receipt, understanding your description, and working out the totals all happen on the iPhone. The core flow makes no network requests at all, which is handy in exactly the kind of basement restaurant where you most need it.

Whatever you'd say to a friend. “Sarah had the salmon, John and I split the calamari, Mike's getting his own tab” is a normal input. So is “I had the burger, everything else is Priya's.”

You don't need to add people first — names in your sentence become people automatically. You don't need to cover everything in one go either; say some of it, then say the rest.

Describing it in a sentence uses Apple Intelligence. Without it, the assign screen is tap-only: tap an item, then who had it.

Tap the item and reassign it. Nothing is final until you finish the split, and the summary screen is editable too.

With Apple Intelligence you can also just say the correction — Tabber keeps the thread of the conversation, so “no, the calamari was Mike” does what you'd expect.

That's expected and not an error — it happens whenever a description doesn't cover every line. Unassigned items stay visible on the assign screen, and you can either mention them in another sentence or tap to assign them by hand.

Tabber deliberately leaves an item unassigned rather than guessing at it. A missing assignment takes one tap to fix; a wrong one is wrong money.

Seating the table is its own step, just before you assign anything: tap a name Tabber remembers, type a new one, or say the whole table at once. If you have already moved on and someone is missing, tap Edit people on the assign screen, then Add another — seat them and assign their items as normal.

Shared items divide evenly by default, but the split can be weighted — useful when one person had rather more of the bottle than everyone else. A shared item shows as a single line spanning everyone on it, not as duplicates.

When a line of several things deals out whole, each card names what that person had: three pizzas between three people reads “Pizza” on each card, and two of three beers reads “Beer ×2”. A share that isn't whole items shows its division instead, like “Pizza ×3 · ÷2”.

Yes. Anyone you split a bill with is remembered individually, so mentioning their name next time matches them to the same person. New names are filed quietly when you save the tab — which means a mis-heard name you correct on the spot never becomes a permanent person, and an abandoned split leaves nothing behind.

Remembered people are listed under Remembered people in Settings, where you can also add someone by hand — useful before your first split with them, so their name is ready to tap when you seat the table. Records can be renamed, merged when two of them turn out to be the same person, and forgotten with a left swipe. Forgetting someone leaves your past tabs exactly as they were; the name just stops being matched next time. There are no saved groups; people are always remembered individually.

Tap their name while seating the table, or tap the 🎂 beside it in Edit mode on the assign or manual entry screen. Saying it works too: “it's Sarah's birthday” or “we're celebrating Sarah”.

Their items stay assigned to them, but everything they would owe — dishes, tax, and tip — is split evenly across everyone else at the table, including anyone who didn't order. The summary shows each person's part as its own line, and the shared message carries it too. Two birthdays at one table both eat free, but somebody has to pay, so Tabber won't mark everyone.

Yes. Every step before the summary, and manual entry, has Exit in its header. It asks whether to save the tab as a draft or discard it. Drafts wait on the home screen under In progress and reopen on the step you left them on.

Nothing is saved unless you choose to save it. Finishing a draft files it as an ordinary tab, dated the day you started it, and removes the draft. To delete one, swipe it away on the home screen.

Open the tab from your home screen and hold someone's name to mark them Paid; their amount dims so whoever still owes stands out. Hold again to take it off. A tap still opens their items.

Proportionally, by each person's share of the subtotal — never split flat across heads. If your food came to a quarter of the subtotal, you pay a quarter of the tax and a quarter of the tip.

The default tip percentage and whether tip is calculated on the pre-tax subtotal or the post-tax total are both set in Settings. Every split then gets its own tip step, where you can keep the tip the receipt already printed, pick a different percentage, type an amount, or leave no tip at all.

Always, to the cent. Everything is calculated in whole cents, and any rounding remainder is assigned to the largest payer so the column sums exactly to the printed total. Each person's own itemised lines also add up to the figure shown at the top of their card.

No, and that's deliberate. The on-device model reads the receipt and works out who had what; every calculation after that is ordinary code. Language models are unreliable at arithmetic, so none of the money math is left to one.

No. The photo is read on your iPhone and never transmitted. There is no server to send it to — Tabber has no backend at all. The privacy policy covers this in full.

No audio is saved, and none is sent anywhere. Speech recognition is configured to run on the device only; the microphone is open only while you're actively dictating, and what comes out is text on your screen that you can edit before anything happens with it.

Three levels: delete all the receipt photos saved with your tabs (keeping the tabs themselves) in Settings, delete an individual tab or draft by swiping it away on the home screen, or “Reset account” in Settings to erase every tab, draft, person, and preference at once.

You can also set photos to age out automatically after 30 days, or never to be saved with a tab in the first place. A draft keeps its receipt photo until you finish or delete it, whatever that setting says. Deleting the app removes everything with it.